Mexican Central Bank Interest Rate Cut September 26, 2025 As was expected, the Bank of Mexico late yesterday cut the overnight interbank rate by another 25 basis points to 7.5%. That brought its cumulative drop during 2025 to 250 basis points on top of 125 basis points of easing in 2024. The peak rate from…
Tariff News Back in the Spotlight Along with A Looming U.S. Federal Government Shutdown September 26, 2025 President Trump has unveiled several fresh tariff hikes, including a levies of 100% on imported pharmaceuticals, 25-50% on bathroom vanities and kitchen cabinets, and 25% on long trucks. China and other Asian economies are seen as particularly vulnerable….
While Awaiting Several U.S. Data Releases, Investors Hear Range of Fed Official Comments September 25, 2025 Thursday’s menu of U.S. data reports includes revised GDP and PCE price deflator, existing home sales, durable goods orders, an early bird estimate of the U.S. merchandise trade deficit, the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey, and weekly jobless insurance…
German Economic Setback, U.N. Speeches, and Parsing U.S. Monetary Policy September 24, 2025 The dollar got an across-the-board lift from a disappointing German business climate survey result in September. That monthly report from the IFO Institute in Munich yielded an unexpected 4-month low reading of 87.7 after August’s 15-month high and in contrast to analyst…
Swedish Riksbank’s Eighth Interest Rate Cut Since May 2024 but the Last One for Some Time to Come September 23, 2025 In Sweden where core CPI inflation of 3.2% exceeds the 2% target by the most in 19 months, the Riksbank Executive Board surprised analysts with a 25-basis point interest rate cut to 1.75% today….
Hello traders, In today’s session, Supply Demand EA ProBot placed 2 automatic trades on Gold (XAUUSD). From the input settings, the 1st and 2nd timeframes were enabled. On the first trade, I didn’t change anything, the EA managed it fully. On the second trade, I moved the TP level higher in case price goes against…
First Batch of September PMI Surveys, Fed Official Comments and the OECD Interim Global Economic Outlook September 23, 2025 There was scant dollar movement overnight of 0.1% or less, and U.S. stock futures are also marking time ahead of a speech by Fed Chairman Powell. Share prices in the Pacific Rim closed up 1.0% in…
New Week Kicks Off with Record High Gold Price But More than a 2% Drop in Bitcoin September 22, 2025 (173) The fourth week of September got off to a slow week from a data release standpoint. Investor attention is particularly focused on the policy stances of major central banks, which seem to be leaning…
Listen to the audio episode: Get The Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist! 23 Years of Full-Time Trading Experience In episode 526 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with Ross Maxwell, a trader with over 23 years of experience, and shares his journey from working at institutions to trading…
Next Week’s Menu: September 20 – 26, 2025 September 19, 2025 Central Banks: Interest rate reviews are scheduled in China, Switzerland, Sweden, Mexico, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Minutes will be published from the Bank of Japan Board meeting. Many officials from the Federal Reserve (Powell, Williams, Bowman, Daly, Musalem, Barkin, Barr, Bostic and Goolsbee)…